For a potential trimming of the Main/ namespace page by division by game engine and some genres. It'll likely stay for games which can't be put elsewhere, like ones that don't use a specific engine, frameworks, or plugin-enabled content.
Done folders: 4X Games, Action Games, Action Adventure, Adventure Games, Card Games, Detective Games, Endless Running Games, Escape the Room, Fighting Games, Launcher Games, Platforming Games, Quiz Games, Racing Games, Roguelikes, Rhythm Games, Stealth Games, Strategy Games, Virtual World Games.
Web games are Exactly What It Says on the Tin — video games which are meant to be played online.
1996-2001: early era, Flash mainly as an interactive animation
2001-2012: Web games as a casual gaming platform, second generation MMORPG, hosting sites like Newgrounds and Kongregate and etc
2012-2020: Decline, death of Flash, rise of HTML and Unity, something about .io Game and ports to Itch io
Nowadays, many games can be found on archiving sites or providers like Flashpoint
. The indie scene is still active on sites like Newgrounds and the Idle Game genre is very strong, with The Modding Tree and its successor Profectus seeing wider adoption each day.
Pages where web games may already be indexed:
- Adobe Flash
- .io Game
- Java
- Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
- The Modding Tree
- Multiplayer Online Battle Arena
- Multi-User Dungeon
- PICO-8
- Unity
Games needing to be indexed by engine and/or genre:
- Back Door
- Billy's Big Adventure
- Canabalt
- Cartoon Hero
- Chess Evolved Online
- Colour My Series
- Cube Escape
- Death Vegas
- Detective Grimoire
- Die Anstalt
- Divine Intervention
- Don't Escape
- A Duck Has An Adventure
- Five Minutes To Kill Yourself
- Frank's Adventure
- Gundam Fighter
- Hobo
- How to Raise a Dragon
- Lakeview Cabin
- Legend of Kalevala
- The Legends of Hiro
- Looming
- Minoto Series
- Monster Basement
- Morningstar
- Mud And Blood
- Mystery of Time and Space
- Nether Runner
- Nightmare Doors
- Paladog
- Rebuild
- Reincarnation (2008)
- Relic of War
- Robot Unicorn Attack
- The Room: The Game
- Samorost
- Scrap Metal Heroes
- The Several Journeys of Reemus
- Skrillex Quest
- Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure
- A Small Favor
- The Splitting
- Steambirds
- Steppenwolf: The X-Creatures Project
- Stick War
- Story of the Blanks
- Submachine
- Takeover
- The Trapped Trilogy
- Town of Salem
- Triachnid
- Trigger Knight
- Uphill Rush
- Vegetable Game
- The Visitor
- Wasted Youth
- Armor Blitz
- Ayiti: The Cost of Life
- Bungo to Alchemist
- Dicey Dungeons
- Evoland
- Fallen London
- Gun Bros
- Kahoot!
- KanColle
- Kingdom Hearts χ
- Kromer Kollector
- Len'en Cafe ~ Book of the Cafe
- Me (2017)
- Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA-
- Neptune's Pride
- OviPets
- Picture Wars
- Planet That Have Many Creatures
- Ravenwood Fair
- Rock Band World
- Touken Ranbu
- Yu-Gi-Oh! BAM
- Games By53xy 83457 (questioning whether it has enough examples with context, or can likely go to own pages, also the title is painful though it's easy to see why)
- Castle Quest 2 (can go to Video Games of the 2000s)
- Go Cross Campus (can go to Defunct Online Video Games)
- Osmosis Jones Mystery Of The Rash Outbreak (likely Video Games of the 2000s and Licensed Game)
- Pirates of the Caribbean (can go to Defunct Online Video Games and Licensed Game)
- Slay.one (can go to Action Game)
- TagPro (can go to Video Games of 2010–2014)
- Unlight (can go to Card Battle Game and Video Games of 2010–2014, original web version is not available so Defunct Online Video Games as well)
- Zero Summer
- Fancy Pants Adventures (at least one game is available in Flash. The page mentions a version with an "updated engine", but the link to it doesn't work, which may mean it's a non-Flash version)
- Fresh Minty Adventure (page source has intro.swf, but it's not entirely clear this is the actual game. Minty Fresh Adventure! is a Flash game, so it's very likely this one is as well)
- I Don't Even Game
- Mind Your Manors
- My Little Pony: Fighting Is Magic
- Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death
- Vector
